Waterfowl. 6 5 



canyons. The soil is seemingly wholly unfitted to sup- 

 port bird life, as it is almost bare of vegetation, being 

 covered with fossil plants, shells, fishes, etc. all of which 

 objects, by the way, the frontiersman, who is much given 

 to broad generalization, groups together under the start- 

 ling title of " stone clams." 



